CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT OF THE INCOMES, WEALTH AND ECONOMIC WELL‐BEING OF FARMERS
指出英国农业政策中农民收入概念模糊，年度白皮书的总收入数据无法反映农民家庭真实收入状况，强调需考虑非农收入、资本收益及财富因素，并建议明确收入政策目标、采用更合适的收入测量方法。
Concern over the incomes of farmers has been a fundamental but ill‐defined component in the agricultural policies of the UK and many other industrialised countries. Attention is drawn to the inability of the UK's annual White Paper aggregate income figure to reveal much of the income position of farm families. Current income from farming is only a partial measure of the potential spending power of farmers: many have off‐farm sources of income which must be taken into account when, for example, assessing poverty and these sources appear to be growing in relative importance. In the longer term, capital gains form part of the returns to landowning farmers but are usually ignored. The frequently‐found combination of low current incomes and great wealth has prompted the use of a measure of economic status which combines the two. A prime requirement appears to be a more precise statement of the aims of income policy and the use of income measures most appropriate to the circumstances.